On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Jon Lawrence wrote:
> or...are they simply not escaping the characters out correctly in the xml
> code they are submitting...
RFC 1035 (perhaps obsoleted, though I couldn't find anything that was
a 'standard' that defined valid chars) says:
"The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must
start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some
restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less."
That is, &, &#167;, / aren't valid chars in domain names.
Unless you're talking about 'characters in the application that aren't
part of a domain name' ? In which case, that'd be pretty dumb (because
'&#167;' is part of virtually everyone's email address)???
Regards,
Saliya
> >It may be to do with special characters (&, /, &#167; etc), because I (and I
> >presume other resellers) have just received an email to the effect that
> >there's a problem with AusRegistry's ability to process applications with
> >such characters therein.